Italian Mannerist Painter, ca.1518-1594 His father was a silk dyer (tintore); hence the nickname Tintoretto ("Little Dyer"). His early influences include Michelangelo and Titian. In Christ and the Adulteress (c. 1545) figures are set in vast spaces in fanciful perspectives, in distinctly Mannerist style. In 1548 he became the centre of attention of artists and literary men in Venice with his St. Mark Freeing the Slave, so rich in structural elements of post-Michelangelo Roman art that it is surprising to learn that he had never visited Rome. By 1555 he was a famous and sought-after painter, with a style marked by quickness of execution, great vivacity of colour, a predilection for variegated perspective, and a dynamic conception of space. In his most important undertaking, the decoration of Venice's Scuola Grande di San Rocco (1564 C 88), he exhibited his passionate style and profound religious faith. His technique and vision were wholly personal and constantly evolving.  Related Paintings of Tintoretto :. | Suzanna at Her Bath (mk05) | Joseph und die Frau des Potiphar | St Mark Body Brought to Venice | Judith and Holofernes (detail) s | Vulcanus Takes Mars and Venus Unawares |
Related Artists:
Carl Hessmert
1869-1928
TOMMASO DA MODENA
Italian Painter, ca.1325-1379
Georg Caspar Prenner
painted The children of Count Vorontsov in 1755